In Unit 6, you learned about various extracurricular activities and CTSOs that can help you gain experience and skills for your possible career path. Have you thought about what CTSO might be right for you?

If not, now is the time to start!

For this activity, you will decide which CTSO you might want to join and then create an advertisement for this CTSO in an effort to gain other students’ interest as well.

Step 1
Do some research on the various CTSOs mentioned in the unit. Explore what each one is about and how it could benefit your possible career path. Next, decide which CTSO is the best fit for you and for which you will create an advertisement.

Step 2
Pick the medium that you will use for your advertisement. You may create an actual poster on poster-board or use a computer program such as Illustrator or Photoshop. Alternatively, you may choose to use a slide show program like Power Point to create a digital advertisement. If you choose to create a slideshow, your advertisement may be several slides long with different information on each slide.

Step 3
Design your advertisement. You must include the following information somewhere on/in your advertisement:

name of the CTSO (specify if this is a college-prep CTSO or a Vocational CTSO)
the purpose of this CTSO
the career cluster or field this CTSO is geared towards
at least two reasons why a student would want to join this CTSO
at least two ways that this CTSO could benefit students
at least one statistical fact related to this CTSO (such as how many members, chapters, or events this CTSO has)
at least two appropriate graphics or images
You will be graded on the overall design and appearance of your advertisement as well as your inclusion of all of the information mentioned above. For more details, refer to the rubric.